Cage's Milton, you see, is back from the dead and mad as hell at the guy who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby, with Heard coming along for the fun as a recently unemployed waitress who sees him as a sort of father figure.

Make that a father figure who drives a tricked-out 1969 Dodge Charger and does most of his own driving stunts.

"It's no secret I like to drive and drive fast," Cage said last summer at a Comic-Con 2010 panel discussion of the film, directed and co-written by Patrick Lussier.

Other cast members at the premiere included William Fichtner, Charlotte Ross and Billy Burke of "Twilight" fame, cast in "Drive Angry" as a bad dude instead of a good dad. Click the pics for more photos from the red carpet.

Heard, appropriately enough, showed up with her non-industry dad, David Heard. On Cage's team? His 20-year-old son, Weston Cage, who wrote and performed the film's title track and showed up with Nikki Williams on his arm.